Estimated combined Texas mixed-beverage tax — the state sales tax plus the mixed-beverage gross-receipts tax that every Texas bar pays on alcohol sales. Updated each month after TABC publishes the gross-receipts file. See how we compute this.
Estimated combined state + mixed-beverage tax collected from bars in each county, ranked highest first.
| # | County | Bars filing | Gross receipts | Estimated tax | Share of TX tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harris | 3,812 | $161M | $23M | 18.5% |
| 2 | Dallas | 2,425 | $123M | $18M | 14.2% |
| 3 | Travis | 1,574 | $94M | $14M | 11.0% |
| 4 | Tarrant | 1,726 | $83M | $12M | 9.7% |
| 5 | Bexar | 1,616 | $69M | $10M | 8.0% |
| 6 | Collin | 950 | $35M | $5M | 4.1% |
| 7 | Denton | 673 | $23M | $3M | 2.7% |
| 8 | El Paso | 643 | $22M | $3M | 2.5% |
| 9 | Montgomery | 506 | $20M | $3M | 2.4% |
| 10 | Williamson | 444 | $16M | $2M | 1.8% |
Single source of truth: Texas Comptroller mixed-beverage filings, aggregated for the latest complete month.
total_receipts × 8.25% (state sales tax on the full ticket)
+
(liquor + beer + wine receipts) × 6.7% (Texas mixed-beverage gross-receipts tax on alcohol-only receipts).
This is an estimate derived from the monthly TABC gross-receipts dataset, not the Comptroller's published tax-collected figure. The Comptroller publishes a separate mixed-beverage tax dataset that we intend to wire in directly for the official, audited number; until then the formula above is what we use. The 8.25% sales-tax rate and 6.7% mixed-beverage rate are the standard statewide rates set in Texas Tax Code chapters 151 and 183 respectively. Local sales-tax add-ons (city/county/SPD) can push the effective total a percentage point or two higher and are not included here.